I thought if that lasted for over two hours, you were supposed to call your doctor?
That is an interesting opinion. Other things that don't include firewalls: Power cords. Potato mashers. Network cables. Salamanders.
A switch isn't Fort Knox; it's a busy intersection with traffic going everywhere. As such, it doesn't need a firewall, and in fact it would be stupid for a firewall to be there.
A firewall is intended to block traffic; since a router routes traffic, it's natural for a router to include a firewall, to prevent the routing of undesired traffic.
The longer you break it in, the smoother the packets get.
Needs more break-in. Smooth those packets out. Sometimes the 1s have too sharp of points; as you break them in, they'll smooth out like the 0s.